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Summers and ice-creams go hand in hand. With kids having their long vacations, the only thing they are interested apart from games is ice-creams. So here are some very simple and easy recipes for making ice-creams right in your home. Now whether the entire baccha party is at your place or you just have some unannounced guests for dinner – serving a bowl of chilled homemade ice-cream will surely make them happy.

Most of the ingredients needed to make ice-creams are easily found in the house. All you need to buy is an ice-cream maker and couple of ice-cream molds which you can easily get from online stores like Amazon.in, Flipkart etc. And in case you are thinking why waste time and money on buying an ice – cream maker, then you need to think again. With Amazonoffers and deals you can get the best ice-cream maker without spending much. Secondly the joy of having homemade ice-cream is something which ready made ice creams cannot match!

So let us move on to the recipes:

Strawberry Ice Cream

There is something about strawberry ice cream that it is loved alike by both the young and the old. And so we begin with this amazingly simple recipe of strawberry ice cream.

You will need

Strawberries – 500 grams (fresh)

Heavy Cream – 2 cups

Whole Milk – 1 cup

Sugar – 2/3 cup

Procedure

First take the strawberries in a deep bowl and wash them thoroughly. Trim the strawberries and slice it into thin long pieces. Once the strawberries are sliced, take half of them and make its puree in a blender. You can use Amazon coupons to get the blenders from the best of the brands at most discounted rates. Now keep both the sliced and pureed strawberries aside.

Now combine the cream, milk and sugar in a medium sized saucepan and heat it on medium flame. Keep stirring the mixture until the sugar gets dissolved. Once the sugar is dissolved, pour the mixture into a large bowl. To this add the strawberry puree and mix well. The next step is to cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and chill it in the refrigerator for few hours until it gets completely cool

After the mixture has cooled down completely, pour the mixture into the ice cream maker and process according to the manufacturer’s manual. Towards the end of the process, stir in the sliced strawberry pieces into the mixture. Once this is done, you have to transfer the ice cream to an airtight container and freeze it for at least 2 hours before serving it.

That’s it! The strawberry ice cream is ready.

Coconut Caramel Ice Cream

The recipe is very easy and this ice cream surely tastes divine.

You will need

Coconut Milk – 2 cans

Sugar – 1 cup

Egg Yolks – 6

Kosher Salt – ½ teaspoon

Vanilla Extract – 2 teaspoons

Procedure

Take 1 can of coconut milk and mix it with brown sugar and salt. Bring it to boil and keep stirring until the sugar gets dissolved. Once the mixture is boiled, reduce the heat and cook it for the next 20-30 minutes until the mixture gets reduced and is darkened. The mixture should in fact look like caramel. Once the mixture resembles more like a caramel, add the second can of coconut milk to this mixture and stir well.

Now beat the egg yolks and whisk it with around one cup of the hot caramel mixture. The next step is to turn the heat to low and add the tempered yolks into the saucepan. Cook the mixture for the next 2 minutes. Do not forget to keep stirring regularly, as the mixture thickens remove the pan from the heat and pour it into a bowl. To this mixture add the vanilla extract. Now you need to cover the owl tightly and refrigerate it until it gets completely cool.

The next step is to pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and process according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Freeze it for at least and then you can serve it.

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